U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is routed by press reporters after leaving the Senate Democratic Caucus, following his current arraignment on corruption charges, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, September 28, 2023.
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A federal judge on Monday arranged the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his partner Nadine on bribery and corruption charges to start Might 6, 2024.
The couple is charged with taking “numerous countless dollars of kickbacks” in exchange for main acts taken by Menendez on behalf of 3 New Jersey organization partners.
” Those kickbacks consisted of money, gold, payments towards a house mortgage, settlement for a low-or-no-show task [for Nadine], a high-end lorry, and other things of worth,” the federal indictment declares.
Menendez, his partner, and the trio of business people will stand trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The couple is charged with 3 counts each: Conspiracy to dedicate bribery, conspiracy to dedicate sincere services scams, and conspiracy to dedicate extortion under color of main right. The 3 other offenders are charged with the very first 2 of those counts.
Menendez insists he is innocent, and has actually declined calls by over half of the Democratic Senate caucus that he resign. He has actually implicated district attorneys of twisting “the typical work of a congressional workplace,” and declares the claims are an attack on his partner “for the longstanding relationships she had.”
The indictment declares that Menendez for several years utilized his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to benefit the 3 organization partners. It likewise declares that the senator “supplied delicate U.S. federal government info and took other actions that covertly assisted the federal government of Egypt” in exchange for kickbacks.
A June 2022 F.B.I. raid of Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs house led to the seizure of $480,000 in money. District attorneys stated they discovered a few of the cash packed into coat pockets, and some still in envelopes that were later on discovered to have the business people’s finger prints still on them.
Damian Williams, U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New york city, speaks throughout an interview after revealing that U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was arraigned on corruption charges charges at the SDNY workplace on September 22, 2023 in New York City City.
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